| Author | : Anna Harwell Celenza |
| Publisher | : Charlesbridge Pub Incorporated |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2011 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 9781570917004 |
Tells the story of how jazz composer and musician Duke Ellington, along with Billy Strayhorn, created his jazz composition based on Tchaikovsky's famous Nutcracker Suite ballet. Includes author's note.
| Author | : T. E. McMorrow |
| Publisher | : HarperCollins |
| Total Pages | : 32 |
| Release | : 2017-09-26 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 9780061175985 |
A Bank Street College of Education Best Children's Book of the Year! This jazz-inspired reinvention of The Nutcracker is a worthy tribute to the dreamlike wonder and magic of the Christmas season. In this original retelling, set in New York City during the height of the Harlem Renaissance, one little girl finds her voice as a musician thanks to her enchanting adventures with a magical toy. This quintessential holiday tale is brought to vivid life by debut picture book author T. E. McMorrow and Coretta Scott King Award-winning illustrator James Ransome. An author’s note at the end provides additional information about the history of the Harlem Renaissance, and about the author’s inspiration for this musical retelling.
| Author | : Edward Green |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 317 |
| Release | : 2015-01-08 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 1316194132 |
Duke Ellington is widely held to be the greatest jazz composer and one of the most significant cultural icons of the twentieth century. This comprehensive and accessible Companion is the first collection of essays to survey, in depth, Ellington's career, music, and place in popular culture. An international cast of authors includes renowned scholars, critics, composers, and jazz musicians. Organized in three parts, the Companion first sets Ellington's life and work in context, providing new information about his formative years, method of composing, interactions with other musicians, and activities abroad; its second part gives a complete artistic biography of Ellington; and the final section is a series of specific musical studies, including chapters on Ellington and song-writing, the jazz piano, descriptive music, and the blues. Featuring a chronology of the composer's life and major recordings, this book is essential reading for anyone with an interest in Ellington's enduring artistic legacy.
| Author | : Anna Harwell Celenza |
| Publisher | : Charlesbridge Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2016-10-18 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1580895301 |
Discover the little-known story of Beethoven's beloved masterwork. As the best pianist in Vienna, Ludwig van Beethoven had everything: talent, money, fame. But he also had a terrible secret. He was slowly going deaf. Though his hearing deserted him, the maestro never lost his music. Seeking inspiration for his compositions, Beethoven hit upon Napoleon Bonaparte, then considered a liberator and a folk hero. Soon after Beethoven completed the work, Napoleon declared himself Emperor of France; betrayed and enraged, Beethoven tore his copy of the score to pieces. But his friend Ferdinand rescued a copy, and in time, Beethoven renamed it Eroica: the Heroic Symphony, dedicated to hero in each and every one of us.
| Author | : Denise Brennan-Nelson |
| Publisher | : Sleeping Bear Press |
| Total Pages | : 42 |
| Release | : 2013-06-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Fiction |
| ISBN | : 1627531025 |
Since he was knee-high to a grasshopper, little Stu's favorite place to visit was the nearby zoo. He was there so often that even the animals recognized him. The animals' sounds, from the coos and the snorts, and the squeaks and bellows, and the brays and the whistles, were music to his ears. His mother called it a symphony. Stu loved to pretend to be a conductor when he listened to the animals. But now there is trouble brewing at the zoo. A man wants to take it over and turn it into something else, getting rid of the animals. When the animals learn of his plan, they want to take action. But no one has any ideas. No one but Stu. Young readers will enjoy seeing how Stu steps in to rally the animals to save their beloved zoo.
| Author | : Anna Harwell Celenza |
| Publisher | : Charlesbridge |
| Total Pages | : 34 |
| Release | : 2012-07-01 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1607344629 |
Depicts the story of how Antonio Vivaldi composed and wrote his famous Four Seasons concertos and the accompanying sonnets.
| Author | : Donald Byrd |
| Publisher | : Jump At The Sun |
| Total Pages | : 56 |
| Release | : 2001-09-02 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : |
A retelling of the classic story of Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker ballet, featuring an African American grandmother and her family and set in Harlem.
| Author | : Anna Harwell Celenza |
| Publisher | : Charlesbridge Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 0 |
| Release | : 2018-09-25 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1570917019 |
It's a challenge to transform the "Nutcracker Suite's" romantic orchestra into jumpin' jazz melodies, but that's exactly what Duke Ellington and his collaborator, Billy Strayhorn, did. Ellington's band memebers were not so sure that a classical ballet could become a cool-cat jazz number. But Duke and Billy, inspired by their travels and by musical styles past and present, infused the composition with Vegas glitz, Hollywood glamour, and even a little New York jazz.
| Author | : Anna Harwell Celenza |
| Publisher | : Charlesbridge Publishing |
| Total Pages | : 35 |
| Release | : 2003 |
| Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
| ISBN | : 1570914923 |
Suggests how the death of a friend, Victor Hartmann, inspired the music of Modest Mussorgsky in St. Petersburg in the 1870s.
